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Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 (www.reuters.com)
8 hours ago Startup AI

X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who was behind polling startup TBH and teen-focused social network Gas, as its new head of product (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Startup Entrepreneur

A look at the rise of $5B+ unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B+ club in H1 2025 (news.crunchbase.com)
1 day ago Startup

OpenAI hires team behind startup Crossing Minds as AI talent war heats up (indianexpress.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

PitchBook: Australian startups raised $3.4B in 2024, down from 2021's $6.5B peak; 39% of early-stage capital in Australia came from overseas vs. 21% in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Australia Startup

Critical minerals aren't a startup game: Australia's junior miners must grow up (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
1 day ago Australia Startup

Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech (tech.eu)
2 days ago Startup Switzerland

This startup wants to become the Duolingo to learn coding (indianexpress.com)
2 days ago Startup

Nordic Semiconductor acquires US startup Memfault, a cloud-based IoT lifecycle management and observability service that supports secure OTA updates, for $120M (www.eenewseurope.com)
2 days ago IoT Startup

Sources: Applied Compute, a pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by three former OpenAI staffers, raised $20M at a $100M valuation led by Benchmark (www.upstartsmedia.com)
3 days ago Startup

Trump's tax bill expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, startup staff, including increasing maximum tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Trump Tax Startup

PitchBook: US VC investment in AI startups rose 33% QoQ to $65B in Q1, up 550% from the quarter prior to ChatGPT's 2022 release (www.nytimes.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Over 70% startups integrating AI into core business functions: Meta study (indianexpress.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Palantir signs a deal with The Nuclear Company under which the startup will pay Palantir $100M over five years to develop AI software for the nuclear industry (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

A look at Zhipu AI, the China-backed startup offering AI tools to governments globally, as OpenAI says Zhipu is on the “front line” of the global AI race (www.cnbc.com)
5 days ago China Startup AI

How AI is reshaping the perfume industry, as fragrance tech startup Osmo promises 48-hour sample turnarounds and incumbents like DSM-Firmenich embrace the tech (www.theverge.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Meta pursued AI video generation startup Runway before $14.3B Scale AI deal: Report (indianexpress.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup

A look at Silicon Valley's “botscaling” era, where startups brag about high revenue per employee and low headcount, after “blitzscaling” from 2012 to 2023 (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup

Legal AI startup Harvey raised a $300M Series E co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue at a $5B valuation and says it serves 337 clients like KKR and PwC globally (fortune.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Startup AI Apple

A look at “Generative Engine Optimization” startups like Profound and Bluefish AI, which help businesses improve content to appear in AI search summaries (www.forbes.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Google Startup AI

Nvidia-backed AI startup SandboxAQ creates new data to speed up drug discovery (indianexpress.com)
12 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

Klarna launches a $40/month unlimited mobile plan in the US via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs, following similar offerings by Revolut and N26 (www.cnbc.com)
13 days ago Mobile Startup

Observability and site reliability startup Traversal emerges from stealth with $48M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins (fortune.com)
13 days ago Startup

AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $40M led by General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up from its $3B valuation from June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Startup AI

Israeli observability startup Coralogix raised a $115M Series E led by NewView Capital at a $1B+ valuation, and plans to invest ~$100M in India over five years (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago India Israel Startup

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